AS controversy rages in the US over star footballer Michael Sam’s brave decision to come out, a US sports anchor has delivered an amazing and inspirational speech. Continue reading
Archive for the Statement of intention Category
The Civil Rights Movement is not a Thing of the Past
Posted in Observation, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags civil rights, Dale Hansen, gay rights, Michael Sam, NFL on February 13, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
2013 in review
Posted in Statement of intention on December 31, 2013 by Jarrod BoyleThis blog saw 18,000 views in 2013. To put that in perspective, a best-selling Australian novel sells 5,000. Thanks for your support – here’s to a spectacular 2014, folks!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
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Charlie Bukowski’s Thought for the Day
Posted in Fiction, Observation, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Bukowski, writing on December 27, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“The best part of a writer is on paper. The other part is usually nonsense.”
–Hollywood.
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Is This Racist?
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Adam Goodes, ape, freedom of speech, Lenny Bruce, nigger, racism, Snickers on June 2, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
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Blood-and-Guts Love Letter
Posted in Love letters, Statement of intention with tags Boxing, bullfighting, Carrie Bradshaw, Death in the Afternoon, deer hunting, Ernest Hemingway, love letters, Sex and the City, The Love Letters of Great Men on February 8, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“Boxing and bullfighting are elevated above other sports because of the blood that is in them.”
– Ernest Hemingway (paraphrased from Death in the Afternoon).
I have posted a few love letters on here over time. I was taken with the idea when I heard about ‘The Love Letters of Great Men’, courtesy of Carrie Bradshaw in ‘Sex and the City’. Let’s face it; we watch for blood. It’s not just ghoulish curiosity; it’s also for catharsis. And if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I don’t give a fuck about anything that isn’t bloody.
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2012 in Review – Part 2
Posted in Statement of intention on January 16, 2013 by Jarrod BoyleThis review is for the period the blog was renamed ‘Theme Park at its Darkest’.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
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The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
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2012 in Review – Part 1
Posted in Statement of intention on January 16, 2013 by Jarrod BoyleThis report covers ‘Jarrod Boyle’s Blog’, which was changed to this address late in 2012.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 11,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 18 years to get that many views.
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Existential Terror
Posted in Love letters, Observation, Statement of intention with tags Dead Poet's Society, Easter Bunny, Feminist Film Theory, God, Imogen Hall, Sartre, troubadours, University on January 12, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
One of the salient experiences of university life was exposure to academics. There was a kind of sadistic glee in some of those first-year lecturers and tutors, somewhat akin to people who enjoy corrupting children; they were going to apply ‘reason’ and ‘education’ to our conditioning and laugh their evil laughs as our bourgeois values fell away from us. As far as they were concerned, God and the Easter Bunny were much the same thing. Continue reading
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Manifesto
Posted in Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Raymond Chandler on January 9, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Winston Churchill – Quotes
Posted in Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Winston Churchill on November 9, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” Continue reading
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